re: Ahsoka Season 1 Episode 7 Discussion Thread

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Spot on. Rebels is Filoni's baby and this is the next step. Tough to follow without having watched that

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I've been helping my son with a health issue, which has laid him up. Coincidentally this has left him (and me) with plenty of time to watch TV, as he recovers. At his suggestion we've been watching Rebels; I'm now in season 4.
Couple observations:

1) Rebels is damn good for "a children's cartoon". It's really tying things together, painting the background leading up to the OT, and bringing things into alignment between the Prequels and the Empire/Rebellion conflict.

2) Ahsoka seems like it is a straight continuation of that tale (which I haven't finished yet, although I do know from searching online the conclusion).

3) Sabine looks well-cast, as does Mon Mothma, and we previously agreed Ahsoka was. I have no issue with Ezra, the guy does sound like him. I've seen some folks, maybe here, bitch a little that he looks Arabic or Mediterranean, but Ep 1 of Rebels seemed to portray him as Aladdin in Space (street rat, etc). So I don't mind that at all.
As noted in Mando threads, Bo-Katan is also cast well.
Hera, on the other hand, doesn't look right. Too green, everything including her eyes should be olive. It's not a fatal issue, but it could have been done better.

3) a drawback to the live-action (which is admittedly fantastic to see), is the shorter season. You get 15-20 episodes in the animated version, we're getting 8 with this.
This may be 'corrected' if you carry things back to Mandalorian, in a smoothly done fashion.

And Andor- at this point, I suspect we see Agent Callus in season 2 of that, and maybe a little bit of Thrawn too. If you go by the timeline, I assume we may see some overlap of early Rebels seasons with that.

4) I don't see how you pull any of this over to the sequel trilogy